Biotech by Unknown

Author:Unknown [Unknown]
Format: epub
Published: 2011-08-02T09:16:26.573000+00:00

Kornberg immediately backtracked from his earlier statements by offering alternative interpretations and tried to divert attention to the ethical dimensions of the Senator's own work, such as his support of the Vietnam War. Senator Ribicoff would have none of it. Kornberg had given the senator his proverbial head. But the Senator chose to defer, graciously allowing his colleague, Senator Walter Mondale, the opportunity to deliver the fatal blow.

Mondale wasted no time. He told Kornberg that he found it "remarkable" that this was the first time Kornberg had ever testified before a congressional committee. "Is it any wonder," asked an incredulous Mondale, "that you are having financing problems? Is it any wonder that the public is not responding to its Congress to give you the funding that is reasonably needed to pursue your objectives of adequate research more fully?" Then Mondale delivered the mortal wound prepared by Ribicoff: "I wonder if part of the problem of the lack of public support for your kind of research . . . might stem from this reluctance to carry

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